Imagine how selfish you have to be to fight at a Chuck E. Cheese. It's your child's birthday, and you're gonna ruin it by physically fighting with somebody else. Literal brainrot

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The idea of a booze-fuelled Yakuza-style brawl taking place in a Chuck E Cheese is too funny for RGG to not make an actual game event at some point.

The thought of some soul-sucked manager at Chuck E. Cheese being like "Yeah, yeah... just call the police _again"_ just has me 💀 damn, those poor bastards.

You know Chuck E. Cheese is going in a bad direction when they're retiring the "Where A Kid Can Be A Kid" slogan they've been using for 3 decades

I took my son to Chuck E. Cheese’s on his 5th birthday. I hadn’t been myself since I was a kid back in the early 2000’s. I was shocked when there were no tickets, gold coins, animatronic shows, no Chuck himself walking around offering hugs and pictures. They got rid of everything that made Chuck E. Cheese different from your run of the mill arcade. This place was my absolute favorite place in the world when I was a child. Now, my son barely even mentions it. Shame.

Ok but mad respect to Chucky, he’s an orphan who never found out his legal birth date, and instead took that sadness out by making sure he created an establishment where every kid can have the best birthday possible

Fun fact the guy who voices Chuck these days is apparently the lead singer of Bowling for Soup. You know, just to add to the insanity.

I remember one time the Skee-Ball ticket dispenser had an error and it spit out all the tickets inside, and the staff let me keep them!

I actually used to work at a CEC in MS. Firstly, I will say, the children were very, very rarely ever an issue. It was almost ALWAYS the parents. Either starting fights, causing scenes, breaking things, or even stealing things. Not to mention the several full on abandonments we had to deal with. I couldn’t tell you how many families we’ve had that were always trying something stupid. I remember this one family that kept saying they never got their food, and accused us of racism when we asked them about the 4 previous pizzas we brought them when they said it before. My manager once refused to serve beer to one woman after she asked to have it served in a paper cup, instead of the transparent ones we served it in, because she didn’t want her daughter to see her drinking. She proceeded to scream, and throw a full on tantrum. In front of her daughter. One of the worse abandonments I remember was this little 4 year old girl. Her parents just straight up left her there. She came up to one of our showroom girls, asking for food. They gave her some water, I made her a little pizza, and once we realized what happened, the manager called Child Services. Another, and the last story I’ll tell was this one mother who told the manager that she was just going to drop her daughters off, and come back later. He pointed to the sign on the check in booth that said that unattended minors would be reported to Child Services. It basically also said we were not a babysitting service. Well, at one point, she managed to slip out past him. She dropped her daughters off at 9am. Both her daughters came to him around 2pm, asking for food, because they had no money. Manager asked where their mother was, recognizing them, and they told him she’d left to go shopping. Police, and Child Services were called, and took the kids. Mom came back to pick her girls up at 10pm. We closed at 9pm, at the time. Manager called the police, and she fought them when they tried to question her. When I came into work the next day, one of the front door windows were shattered from said fight.

I think the most depressing thing to me and my memeories of CEC is how brightly lit and open floor planned they are. The dimly lit maze like layouts and different rooms was a big part of the excitment of exploring them as a kid. I also think it the newer exposed layouts just invites more conflicts that plague them these days.

I grew up in a town that didn’t have a chuck e cheese and my parents weren’t keen on driving two hours to the closest rat themed pizzeria, but we did have cable tv. I remember seeing ads for the place and wanting to go SO BAD. I explicitly remember watching an ad where a kid did a bunch of chore’s for his mom to convince her to take him to Chuck E. Cheese, and trying that myself. I didn’t really understand why we couldn’t go and would honestly get really upset whenever my mom said “no” by the time I was legally allowed to drive there myself needless to say the place lost all of its appeal.

Chuck E. Cheese brawls are some of the weirdest things in humanity. It's like they combined Freddy fazbears pizza, a saloon, and Mortal Kombat all into one event.

I used to be a door person at CEC. The pizza scandal was never true. Turns out from what I was told by my old boss, a guy on the internet (Shane Dawson) purposely put different sized pizza on a platter and then ran with the accusation of recycled pizza. It caused a huge issue for the company and they make sure to make completely fresh and perfect pizza for every order

Former employee here. At my location, most of the employees were teenagers and the managers strictly prohibited us to handle alcohol without a manager present (aka an adult). However during the weekends, it gets so busy that so many adults order alcohol and yell at the poor cashiers (who are teens fyi). Even though a manager is like, “oh yeah I’ll be there in a minute!” They never come out of the kitchen. Literally it was a nightmare working there….

I work for a performing arts theatre. Having seen the sales figures, kid shows are the 2nd most alcohol selling shows per customer only beaten by rap shows. This means if mom and dad bring two children with them, mom and dad drink as if they were five people at a rock concert.

Funny thing is I remember when Chucke used to have a policy of no alcohol at all, because it was a kids place. Then they started to serve it, then offered IPA's and wines. Worst bit is many adults would just leave their beer cups unattended on tables for any kid to grab.... Honestly really seems like a bad idea.

Chuck E. Cheese tokens became an in-joke with one of my friendgroups. Like a little urban legend. They work on a sort of monkey's paw principle. If you flipped a token and wished on it, you would either get exactly what you asked for instantly, or something horrible would happen to you (related to the wish) instead. The problem, though, is that the tokens look the same on both sides. So you wouldn't be able to tell if you won or lost until the change actually happened. I like to think that they switched to the card system after enough people discovered their true power.

I remember as a kid my favorite game was one that involved scooping as many cute little bees into a net as you can. It was so fun and I miss having that cup of coins. I think I still have an old Chuck E Cheese coin. It was so much fun back in the day.

14:52 "Yes, you have an incredibly slim but still slightly possible chance of being shot there." Isn't that everywhere in the US these days?

During the covid lockdown they had a takeout deal. Large pizzas, cheese bread, and a few other things were $5. Mozzarella sticks were 2 bucks. Call me a psychopath but I ordered it a few times. It was pretty depressing picking it up because all of the games were off and it was as quiet as a graveyard, but the food was actually pretty decent for the price

A bit of a correction, Showbiz Pizza actually wanted to keep their original characters because THEY were the ones who received better reception in customer surveys and the press, particularly Fatz the gorilla. They wanted to continue to use those characters, but they didn't own them, they were owned by Creative Engineering Inc, the company who produced the animatronics for Showbiz. For financial reasons, Showbiz decided to use the Chuck E Cheese characters from then on, as they owned them

Fascinating watch for a Brit where we not only never had Chuck E. Cheese, but just had no equivalent whatsoever. I think that for some of us, FNAF was our entire introduction to the idea of a restaurant animatronic, to the point where I’ve found it eye opening to see them… actually exist? Kinda wanna see one of these before it’s too late

"Child that cracked themselves in the head after a wildly inappropriate overhand throw" had me crying laughing. ...I was that kid with the overhand throw

I'm pretty sure Chuck-E-Cheese's singlehandedly caused an entire Disney Land attraction to go out of business, which I guess just goes to show rats > mice, or something.

I remember once winning both jackpots on a chuck e cheese spinwheel game, those 1500 tickets took quite a while to come out of the machine. Having a bunch of tickets thrown at your feet just feels much more rewarding than just "Congratulations, you get ____ points!" on a screen

The reason the pizzas look "recycled" Its because kitchen staff are not allowed to use knives instead they use this weird seesaw thing that is very hard to make neat and precise cuts.

This went from a video essay to a Chuck E. Cheese vlog. Instant like.

I'm honestly surprised they're still in business after losing so much awesome vid!!

Pasqually is the pizza chef character from the Chuck E. Cheese franchise. So it’s not totally out of pocket.

Freddy fazbear sure gets a little crazy after 3 beers

I remember I use to go to this pizza place with a arcade inside (not Chuck E. Cheese) and I played one of those slot games and won the Jack pot. All the kids were hyping me up and it took a solid few minutes for the tickets to print. It was one of my favorite memory’s ever

In 2010 I used to take my son to Chuck e cheese and the location here still used coins, the issue was some parents would take their kids to chuck e cheeses with no money and would have the kids walk around without any coins all day, and those kids started preying on the younger kids and just reaching into the cups and stealing handfuls of coins. The employees would replace the coins when paying parents would complain but said they knew but were not allowed to kick people out for theft. We watched those same kids steal drinks and slices of pizzas off unmanned tables. It was disappointing.

The following is a true story: Years before I was born, my parents made Chuck E. Cheese a hang out spot for the cheap pizza and beer. One time my dad drank an entire pitcher. After that, he started running to the exit and before he made it, he projectile vomited pure foam all over the floor 🥴 We still make fun of him for that in my family

the hand sanitizer / sucker punch joke was a nice touch. 😂

It’s to drink away the sorrow of knowing the Chuck E. Cheese’s from our childhood is gone.

I was aware of the fact that my dad was pounding beers while I was trying to figure out the Initial D Racing cabinet. Looking back I kinda understand. The man was tired, and probably took a day off work and rode the bus with his wife and two weirdo kids to a noisy arcade that sold subpar pizza. But hey, his kids had good memories, and he got to drink beer. So why complain?

Can’t Chuck E Cheese just be like the SpongeBob or Bluey of pizzerias where it’s wholesome for the kids, yet still fun for the adults?

15:02 Thats the Chuck E. Cheese that used to be by where I live in Springfield OR, I can tell because you can see part of the arches of the old iconic Gateway mall. Sadly the Chuck E. Cheese has been gone for years, and a couple years after that, they turned Gateway, which was an awesome mall, into a trashy strip mall. Theres something really nice though about randomly seeing the exact Pizza Rat establishment that I frequented for so many of my own birthday parties, in this equally random KZfaq video. Although it was most definitely just a coincidence that you used an image of the one in my hometown, thanks for the mini blast of Pizza Rat and mall escalator nostalgia.

I would love to see a video about the “Discovery Zone” franchise that was huge for the 80s to mid 90s era. I remember it being a ton of fun, but I don’t know if it is still around, been rebranded, or just quietly disappeared into the void…

Instead of removing the band entirely they should instead turn them into a hologram projection. That would allow them to keep the band without requiring maintenance or upgrading to the animatronics. Each location would just receive a new video sequence each time they updated it with new songs/videos. They could actually do a lot with it and make it really cool.

I watched a news piece on their local CEC restaurants in their city. They found that prior to getting rid of alcohol license the police had to respond to an average of 5 calls to each CEC a year. After getting rid of the alcohol the average actually went up to 6 calls.

there seems to be a pattern to the people fighting in those videos

I was born in 1988. During my teen years, there was this gigantic place in central Indiana by the name of United Skates. It was a classic roller rink with an arcade off to the side. One trip I remember is a young boy, maybe 9 at the oldest, was wandering around the arcade. He said "Tokens for the poor?" He was being REALLY sweet & he was nice to me earlier. I decided to be the cool, older kid & gave him 3 tokens from my stash. God speed, lil dude.

The Pasqually's gambit is actually brilliant, I respect it

The sad thing about the changes to the restaurant? There are kids who never even SAW the animatronic band in person who insist that the interactive dance floor is better because "no creepy child-mangling robots." FNAF has utterly tanked the reputation of this place. They could at least have a CG band on a giant display, or heck, why not do a Pepper's Ghost hologram? There are some pretty inexpensive ways to keep that part of the business alive without just completely scrapping it.

BRING BACK THE CIGAR SMOKING RAT, THE COINS AND THE BEER!!!

Interesting note: in Pennsylvania only dedicated beer distributors known as "beer stores" are actually allowed to serve beer, which means Chuck-E-Cheese there actually never server alcohol. Making that 17 calls store very funny.

I gotta say... It's sad that so many adults have to be drunk or maybe even on drugs In order to spend time with their children. Sad.

I worked at CEC in the late 90s. We served beer and wine. I was a party hostess, but regularly got called to the register to pour beer because I was one of the few non management working there who was 18. I worked there for over a year and don't remember ever having the police come. I was surprised to find that the location I worked at started hiring off duty police officers to hang out on Friday and Saturday nights.

1:39 Chuck E Cheese should be a Super Smash Bros stage with all the brawls that occur over at that resterant.

In the late 90s there were a string of fights (as I remember, one was over breadsticks) at the El Cerrito location. It's been gone for a long long time but I'll always remember that. In 2001 I found a Sanrio money box full of tokens from what must have been my birthday party there when I was in preschool. It was like finding secret Aztec gold. My mom thought it was hilarious and said we should go spend them all. And we did! We drove out to another CEC in Fairfield and spent every damn token on a sugar fueled afternoon. It was the first place I ever saw Brave Firefighters. My god. We were drunk with power. That was loads of fun.

Sadly, I never went to Chuck E. Cheese's because me and my family would always prefer Cici's or Peter Piper Pizza. Even though we have pizza bought from Little Caesars, Pizza Hut or Domino’s, it's sad to see that Chuck E. Cheese's file for bankruptcy due to its rebranding and the COVID-19 pandemic which closed all restaurants in 2020. I gotta admit that place was awesome and I remember PBS Kids always sponsoring that place from the 2000s.

Imagine being that kid at 4:28 up in the bubble that got to see the brawl from that gorgeous aerial view

I only got 2 ads at 9:02 which isn't that bad for KZfaq. By the way, it disgusts me to see so many violent incidents happen in a children's establishment, but it was also fun to see a bunch of grown men reliving their childhoods.

The heavy metal played during the fights made me laugh too hard lol

something about you calling and saying "do you guys sell alcohol at your establishment" made me laugh so hard

3:12 There are more recordings of borderline-riots at Chuck-E-Cheese establishments than there are years in the average human lifespan. I'm not sure whether that's morbidly hilarious or existentially horrifying, but it's definitely at least one of the two.

I went into a Chuck E. Cheese recently and asked about how much it would cost to hold a funeral there. I explained I wanted to hold the whole service there. They said no.

I vaguely remember Chuck E. Cheese, as I was scared of chuck e and how he looked around his stage and never surrendering his smile. I only remember goofy clock ride thing, coins and silly picture warmers. Now, I’m way too old for chuck e. Man, I wish I did more. I only went about 2 times as I could remember.

I personally never saw any problem with them changing their name for delivery apps during the lockdown. It's not like they changed their name to "Domino's" or some other reputable business. Other restaurants did the same thing. I've ordered from "It's Just Wings" and "Tender Shack" and later found out that they were operating out of "Chile's" and "Outback Steakhouse" respectively.

Dude, my Dad used to take me to Toys R' Us and Chuck E. Cheese on my childhood birthdays, and when Toys 'R Us closed back in 2018, I visited it AND the restaurant to revisit my childhood memories. I remember being disheartened to see that the arcade games were so SO bad -- they were basically upscaled mobile games, they used to have the TMNT and XMen Arcade games AND the Simpsons Pinball game, they could have at least kept those. Overall, it just wasn't the same.

I absolutely loathe whenever people cherry-pick incidents that actually only happen very rarely in a certain place and base the reputation of such a place solely on these cherry-picked incidents.

I used to be scared of those animatronics whenever they weren't moving 😂 they were just sitting there staring menacingly 👀

12:26 The Mcdonalfication of truly 90s establishments is so sad to see

They could've AT LEAST kept the tickets. I remember a point when the cards replaced just the coins but the machines still spit out tickets. Still remember one time this kid came up to me asking me to swipe my card for him. Absolutely heartbreaking they are done away with the tickets too.

My favorite experience at Chuck E Cheese was getting to play Mechwarrior 3 or 4 in a cockpit- looking machine with dual joysticks. Honestly that was peak gaming at the time

The CEC i worked at for six years was the only one to not sell alcohol, but fights occurred in front of me more than once. I only worked there part-time to boot. However, when we changed the restroom trash liners, we heard alcohol bottles clank together after busy days.

This was honestly the first time in awhile i wish a video was longer. As someone who grew up with memories of skater chucky, but not of the band, it's sad to know how kids in the future & now won't experience what the 70s-2010s kids did. Great vid, man!

The crazy part is... it isn't the kids..it's the damn parents/ADULTS!

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wow this is surreal... i had a friend send me this a couple days ago because he recognized the location you went to... i worked at that exact location when you visited, jeez, I even recognize one of my old coworkers at some point. anyways, I'm glad you had a good time when you came! yes, knowing the manager who worked there at the time it was definitely an issue on their part rather then too many people buying beer lol. actually at that location we also sell different wines and seltzers too funnily enough.

As much as Chuck E Cheese still has a lot of work to do on their image, I don't really think that the fights can be blamed on them. Like honestly, what is the company realistically supposed to do about that besides hire more security? The ones that cause most of the drama are adults. You can't really control full-grown adults that can absolutely fight back.

2:07 It's sad grown adults are starting brawls at a goddamn arcade. This looks really sad.

For some reason when I was younger we took a field trip across the state and at the end of it we ended up at a Chuck E Cheese. Well eventually it was time to leave and get on the bus to go home. However my dad was there and so was my friends mom. So we just let the others leave and we stayed for a while to play games. Good times.

That was never an issue durning the 80’s. Back then Chuck E. Cheese was awesome.

The frustrating card interface is a real bummer. Why are they making everything like cellphones when, if anything, that's what I feel they should be pushing against! Make it as different from what every kid has access to every day, not more like it.

I work at a "fun center" like this, and the climate of "fun" has definitely changed over the years. Chuck locations that were mentioned in the early parts of the video seem to be location issues. Most places will have the normal scuffle every now and then, it just depends on how security and problems are solved and handled. Most places now start to have security during peak hours or days only, some just have cameras with staff who were barely even shown how to do their job

Interesting footage. I wonder what all the patrons have in common?

Alcohol at an establishment for kids, full of kids. What could possibly go wrong? 🤦‍♀

Alternate reality where Showbiz Pizza took off and Chuck E. Cheese's is a near forgotten relic

Holy shit, I was not expecting Brave Firefighters to be brought up. I heard that game is pretty rare, so it's surprising to hear that your Chuck E. Cheese had one.

Hahahaha, the hilight of the guy winding up for sucker punch bit at 3 and a half mins cracked me up. Thanks for that.

Just found this video in my feed and love the writing and style, subscribed

I love how the news anchor did a big exposé on exposing a 16-year-old high school aged Chuckie cheese employee making less than minimum wage. Really lady? Is it that big of a story that you got some young girl fire from her job for trying to help you?

It's wild how Chuck E Cheese went from a wholesome kid place to now its become a bar filled with children. As a Zilemmoal myself I can remember when Chuck E Chesse demanded right when I was entering high school.

9:37 Ohhhh that's the location I used to go to as a kid! I even stopped by recently for a fun nostalgia wave haha

For being lactose intolerant, They love some milk

‘80s kid, here. I remember playing the ticket games, having fun in the ball pit, the sky tubes, watching the animatronics show, and playing the arcade games such as Midnight Resistance, Bad Dudes, Spy Hunter, NARC, The Simpsons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, and more. I still have great memories of CEC. We never had any fights or alcohol problems when I went there. After the early ‘90s I outgrew it, though I did go to my niece’s and nephew’s birthday parties there years later. The restaurants were never the same when I went back for those events, (fortunately they weren’t as bad compared to their much later days).

12:16 They're STILL using reworked Showbiz Pizza animatronics designed/produced by Creative Engineering in the "80's. The keyboard says it all...

1:12 tbh, I used to celebrate my birthday at ChuckECheese but because my sister birthday was also close, we never actually had the birthday thing and I never remember anyone else celebrating their birthdays 😂

Chuck E. Cheese's mascots make no sense. You've got a mouse/rat, a chicken, and a dog, all of which can be fun animal characters, but then you have an italian, which is sorta like an animal I guess, and lastly you have a.... purple and yellow monster? Why? Did they run out of animals? It's just a weird choice. It's not like McDonalds where the mascots were always a hodge-podge of nonsense, with a clown, a chicken, the moon, a purple thing, and a thief.

Still can't get over the "Pasqually's" thing, like they really did just get a snazzy logo and pretend to be another place

8:10 Actually, not really. Showbiz Pizza's Rock afire characters being replaced by CEC's characters is for a different cause. Back in the 80's Showbiz Pizza is actually doing better financially than Chuck E Cheese Pizza Time Theatre. That's why Showbiz is the one that bought CEC, and CEC experienced bankruptly at the time. Both Showbiz Pizza and CEC faced financial problems in the video game crash, but CEC is suffering worse of the two. And for Billy Bob being replaced by Chuck E in Showbiz case, it mainly has to do with problems between Creative Engineering(Company who owns the Billy Bob and his friends) and Showbiz Pizza. You see, Showbiz Pizza does not own the Rock afire Explosion characters, Creative Engineering owns the license of the Rock afire characters and they collaborated with Showbiz to make Showbiz Pizza possible. During the merge of CEC and Showbiz Pizza, Showbiz wanted to own the Rock afire Explosion and want to cheat out Aaron Fechter(The owner of Creative Engineering) by not giving him any cent to buy them out of him. Aaron decline the offer and he took the rights of the Rock afire Explosion with him, thus Billy Bob and his friends are axed off out of Showbiz and Showbiz only has the CEC license, thus the Rock afire Explosion ended up being replaced by Munch's Make-Believe Band in Concept Unification. There's a Rock afire Explosion documentary film that explains all of this. But overall, it has nothing to do with Chuck being more popular than Billy Bob.

90% of those fight videos had one thing in common.

7:00 What the fuck I was literally thinking of looking up if I could order their pizza take out.

Really wish they still kept a lot more of some of the classic or retro games, at least to mix up the formula of old and new games available. Nothing can beat the nostalgic fun of the old Jurassic Park and Lost World machines; those used to be everywhere.

4:16 as a man who has installed CCTV, I can assure you that 4K footage at 60 FPS is achievable by modern day security cameras. The 240p joke is a early 2000s joke

I was born in 2006 and when I went with my aunt or parents I always loved having the coins know I can hear the ticket muncher after playing a little bit. When I found out they removed coins and tickets for the cards I got so upset. I loved the vid! Reminded me of how lucky I am to know the joys of the ticket muncher.

As someone who was pretty bummed about the whole power card system replacing tokens and tickets too, I quickly realized it created it's own brand of fun, particularly in regards to the all-you-can-play time, which is just a better deal than buying credits by a longshot. Why? Cuz this lets you tap the card once every 30 seconds. This creates a game of musical chairs almost, where you can either continue to tap the card every 30 seconds during a game's downtime (Which if you master it, can be done during play considering how many games only require one hand at a time) OR you can jump back and forth between games every 30 seconds in order to optimize the amount of plays. It's definitely not the same, but idk I had a lot of fun doing that with my niece and nephew the last time I went. Feels good to get a flow going. Scan Mario kart, don't hit start on it, run over to the big bass wheel, scan it, pump it, run back over to Mario kart, reach over to the basketball machine nearby for other people to play while you're playing, etc. You just gotta go in with the right strategy.